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New Prenda Law Shell Corp Threatening to Tell Your Neighbors You Pirated Porn

Posted by Unknown on from the barely-legal dept.

It appears that Prenda Law, freshly defeated, has formed a new shell company named the "Anti-Piracy Law Group," and has resumed sending threatening letters to supposed porn pirates. But this time, they've expanded their threats (from a letter (PDF) sent to Fight Copyright Trolls): "The list of possible suspects includes you, members of your household, your neighbors (if you maintain an open wi-fi connection) and anyone who might have visited your house. In the coming days we will contact these individuals to investigate whether they have any knowledge of the acts described in my client’s prior letter" Naturally, the letter also notes that the recipient can avoid having the list of videos they supposedly copied sent to their neighbors and family if they settle for a few thousand bucks...

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  1. Haha, let them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. I am not ashamed to admit I watch porn.

    2. Watching porn is something I do with the windows open so my asshole shithead neighbor across the street's wife can watch.

    3. Yeah you asshole. Your wife likes to watch me stroke.

    4. I am not ashamed to admit I watch porn.

    -- Posted anonymously for obvious reasons.

    1. Re:Haha, let them. by MiKM · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Posted anonymously for obvious reasons.

      I thought you said you weren't ashamed to admit that you watched porn.

    2. Re:Haha, let them. by realityimpaired · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm not ashamed of my sexuality. I don't pirate porn, largely because the majority of it is fake and really poor quality (I'm not in the target audience), but let them tell my neighbours. They'll get hit with a defamation lawsuit pretty quickly.

      And my neighbours have been able to wrap their heads around the fact that I'm a tree-hugging dirt-worshipping lesbian hippie who goes to festivals where witchcraft is practiced from time to time, I think they won't have any problem understanding that I may look at porn occasionally too.

    3. Re:Haha, let them. by cdrudge · · Score: 5, Funny

      majority of it is fake

      Wait, what!?!? It's fake? Crap. I guess I probably should go back to pirating movies and TV shows since those are real then.

    4. Re:Haha, let them. by ILongForDarkness · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah I usually don't share my fetish for tranny midget shieser porn until the second date.

    5. Re:Haha, let them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I dont pirate porn because watching it more than once feels too much like a relationship.

  2. Black mail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is black mail, and illegal.

    =]

    1. Re:Black mail by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It really is blackmail. This is a threat with menances in order to get someone to comply with the sender, and it is not a reasonable way of enforcing the request. If they simply send out the letters, while questionable in other ways it is not blackmail. These threats however are genuine straight up blackmail. I'm not sure whether this is criminal or civil offence in the US, but in the UK you'd be in a lot of trouble for this.

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      May the Maths Be with you!
    2. Re:Black mail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, but your porn is black male.

    3. Re:Black mail by dkleinsc · · Score: 5, Funny

      It is in fact illegal in the US as well.

      Although "blackmail" is such an ugly word. I prefer "extortion" - the X makes it sound cool.

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  3. Next on... BLACKMAIL by EvilXenu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Monty Python beat these guys by several decades: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrRZVCg31fE

  4. Stick to accurate accusations by slim · · Score: 5, Informative

    From TFA:

    infamous scumbag Steve “Lightspeed” Jones, a pornographer who specializes in “barely legal” genre (i.e. he recruits and films very young girls)

    (emphasis theirs)

    Now, by all means call him a scumbag on the basis of his extortion and blackmail. By all means find actual ways in which the way he produces porn is scummy.

    But the "barely" in "barely legal" means they're above the age of consent, and hence not "very young". Indeed, since he's in the US, and they're (barely) legal, they must be 18 (2 years older than the age of consent in many countries), and capable of making their own decisions.

  5. They need the cash by goodmanj · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, cut the Prenda guys some slack. They really need to earn some spending money, what with their upcoming dismissal from the bar and possible RICO prosecution...